• quindraco@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    I’ve never once heard anyone, Jewish, Israeli, or otherwise, pronounce Hamas with a k.

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      7 months ago

      Fair enough. And I should be clear, I didn’t find a good source for this explanation, all that came up that was related was a few forum threads. And now that I’m looking at it again, there’s a good variety of completely different answers out there. So I really don’t know what to believe here.

      I may just not be searching well; if anybody does have reliable info about this I’d be happy to hear it :)